Altering a Novel Means Many Things
There are numerous sorts of altering out there, and every ha it's very own definition and process.
Formative altering is one of the primary things you'll need to do after your first draft is composed. This is enormous picture altering and covers everything from your characters to the plot and pacing.
Line altering is done after the advancement of the story is fundamentally done, and the dialect should be smoothed out and cleaned. This is sentence and section level altering, where word use and sentence structure truly become possibly the most important factor.
Duplicate altering is one of the last treks through the composition, where every single word is analyzed, and in addition spelling and sentence structure. Duplicate altering is word processing, and it's a decently 'zoomed in' technique for original copy cleaning.
Editing is the last keep an eye on everything from grammatical errors to organizing issues. This is normally the last advance before distributing the novel, or calling it 'wrapped up'. You ought not get your novel edit until the point that you have done the various advances and trust it's as done as it will get.